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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to gently in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
gently (0) - 83 freq
dently (1) - 1 freq
fently (1) - 1 freq
gentle (1) - 79 freq
ently (1) - 2 freq
gentry (1) - 15 freq
gentily (1) - 4 freq
deftly (2) - 1 freq
gentler (2) - 4 freq
gantry (2) - 6 freq
tenty (2) - 6 freq
bentley (2) - 4 freq
sentle (2) - 1 freq
gentlie (2) - 3 freq
gentis (2) - 1 freq
jyntly (2) - 3 freq
gentie (2) - 18 freq
ginty (2) - 4 freq
sentry (2) - 4 freq
neatly (2) - 26 freq
gendy (2) - 1 freq
geegly (2) - 1 freq
gents (2) - 7 freq
'gentle (2) - 1 freq
entry (2) - 61 freq
gently (0) - 83 freq
gentily (1) - 4 freq
gentle (1) - 79 freq
gantle (2) - 1 freq
gentile (2) - 3 freq
gentlie (2) - 3 freq
gentry (2) - 15 freq
dently (2) - 1 freq
ently (2) - 2 freq
fently (2) - 1 freq
urgently (3) - 7 freq
mintly (3) - 1 freq
gintry (3) - 1 freq
tentily (3) - 22 freq
huntly (3) - 18 freq
gonty (3) - 1 freq
jentle (3) - 2 freq
dentily (3) - 1 freq
genital (3) - 1 freq
genteel (3) - 11 freq
gent (3) - 10 freq
gangly (3) - 2 freq
gentles (3) - 1 freq
gritly (3) - 1 freq
greatly (3) - 10 freq
SoundEx code - G534
gentleness - 1 freq
genteelity - 2 freq
genteelitie - 2 freq
gentler - 4 freq
gentle - 79 freq
gently - 83 freq
gentlemen - 21 freq
gentlemanly - 1 freq
gentleman - 25 freq
gentily - 4 freq
genteel - 11 freq
gentlefolk - 1 freq
gentile - 3 freq
gentles - 1 freq
gentilitie - 1 freq
gauntlet - 9 freq
gentlie - 3 freq
gandalf - 1 freq
gentiles - 6 freq
gentleman' - 1 freq
gantle - 1 freq
'gentlemen - 1 freq
gentlefowk - 2 freq
gentie-like - 10 freq
gentielike - 1 freq
gentilman - 3 freq
gentilmannie - 1 freq
gentilmanlie - 1 freq
gentil-lik - 1 freq
gentleman-farmer - 1 freq
genitals - 2 freq
gentilness - 1 freq
'gentle - 1 freq
€œgentlemen - 1 freq
genital - 1 freq
gentlemannie - 1 freq
gem-de-lovely - 1 freq
gentlemanjack - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - JNTL
jyntlie - 2 freq
gentle - 79 freq
gently - 83 freq
gentily - 4 freq
genteel - 11 freq
gentile - 3 freq
gentlie - 3 freq
jyntly - 3 freq
jentle - 2 freq
jenteel - 1 freq
'gentle - 1 freq
genital - 1 freq
GENTLY
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.292124 milliseconds
The Levenshtein distance is the number of characters you have to replace, insert or delete to transform one word into another, its useful for detecting typos and alternative spellings
Time to execute Double Levenshtein function - 0.492388 milliseconds
In a stroke of genius, this runs the Levenshtein function twice, once without vowels and adds the distance together, giving double weight to consonants.
Time to execute SoundEx function - 0.027540 milliseconds
Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. The goal is for homophones to be encoded to the same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in spelling.
Time to execute MetaPhone function - 0.068846 milliseconds
Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, published by Lawrence Philips in 1990, for indexing words by their English pronunciation.[1] It fundamentally improves on the Soundex algorithm by using information about variations and inconsistencies in English spelling and pronunciation to produce a more accurate encoding, which does a better job of matching words and names which sound similar.
Time to execute Manually curated function - 0.000819 milliseconds
Manual Curation uses a lookup table / lexicon which has been created by hand which links words to their lemmas, and includes obvious typos and spelling variations. Not all words are covered.